People v. Melendez
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Gary, J.), rendered January 5, 2006, as amended April 7, 2006, convicting him of murder in the second degree (two counts) and arson in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment, as amended, is affirmed.
A fire in a three-story building claimed the lives of two residents of a top-floor apartment, and caused serious injury to a third. The fire was determined to have been nonaccidental. Two witnesses saw a man entering and leaving the building shortly before the fire started.…
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